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100% disk usage (out of ideas)
I’ve been having problems with disk usage being at 100% for the drive my OS is on for a few months now. Usually, as soon as I boot up my PC the disk usage will jump to 100% and stay that way for the majority of the time my PC is on, rendering it pretty un-usable. Occasionally it will resolve itself and go down to normal usage, and other times it will jump all over the place, going from 0% to 100% and then dropping back down to 0%. I don’t remember doing anything drastic before this started happening. I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and everything was fine for months, this seems to have happened all of a sudden, randomly.
After trying pretty much everything suggested from various sources online and not being able to resolve the problem, my hard drive finally died. I figured buying a new hard drive and doing a fresh install of windows would finally resolve the problem. However, I recently bought a Samsung Evo 850 SSD, installed windows, but the problem still persists.
I’m also receiving blue screen crashes, which happened after about an hour after the fresh install of windows. I’m unsure if this is related to the 100% disk usage problem though.
I’m pretty much out of ideas as I’ve already tried disabling superfetch, windows search, playing around with the power settings, virtual memory, new hard drive, new RAM, fresh windows install, new sata cables, trying different sata ports, updating drivers, SFC scan, virus scan, etc.
I don't have a windows 10 disk as I upgraded from windows 7, so I had to use windows tools to put windows 10 on a USB from my old hard drive and did a fresh install on the new SSD I bought. Could this have taken over a corrupt version of windows 10? Any help would be appreciated, as I'm pretty much out of ideas.
Specs below. My PC is about 6 years old now.
Windows 10
MSI 770-C45
Amd phenom ii x4 925
4GB Ram
Sapphire Radeon HD 5770
2 TB internal HD (Used for storage)
1TB Internal HD (Used for the OS. This is the drive that has just died and was replaced with a SSD)
750W Power Supply